Sick of your boss skirting your one-to-ones? Take matters into your own hands.
One of the biggest complaints I hear from administrative professionals is that they can’t get their bosses to meet with them. Remote working has only added another obstacle in the way, providing even greater lack of visibility.
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Are you ready to upgrade your work from home tech? Our founder, Lauren Bradley, is a self proclaimed tech addict. Her popular Tech Hack series for assistants highlights fun and easy ways you can use tech to make your job easier every day.
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Trying to focus these days is harder than it’s ever been. What with the jarring daily news reports, stress of virtual school (if you are a parent), while balancing working from home (or in a socially distanced office) – you have more pulling at your attention than ever before.
Our founder Lauren Bradley is known for her love of tech. Even in the office here at HQ she is often jabbering away about a new app that she found and can’t wait to tell the world of admins about.
So when she was approached by the team behind podcast Administrator Nation to talk about her love of tech, it was a very quick yes!
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A wiki is a website or database where multiple users collaboratively add and edit content to share knowledge. It requires high trust but allows for quick sharing and fosters collaboration.
Fortune 500 companies lose at least $31.5 billion a year by failing to share knowledge
The first known website wiki was called WikiWikiWeb. Wiki means quick in Hawaiian. Wiki wiki equates to really quick. So essentially it was the really quick web. This site was a place where multiple users could contribute to this shared knowledge repository on software design patterns.
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I’ve been speaking nonstop with assistants since we went into lockdown here at The Officials HQ and everyone has tech on their minds. There have never been so many assistants working from home and it is pushing all this tech right to the front of your minds.
One question that caused a big reaction was ”How do you track your day to day?” The tech savvy Laura Johnston of The Assistant’s Handbook (and an Official!) told us all about Notion, and we were hooked! So we teamed up with her to bring you our next course Notion: Harnessing the Power of Knowledge which will be released next week. Read more about this powerful and collaborative tool with the potential of becoming your new best friend.
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Technology is a funny thing. It is now so intertwined with our daily lives that we don’t even notice it and yet we’re still looking for the holy grail – technology that will actually boost our productivity, make us more efficient and free our time to focus on high-value work.
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Below is a list of tech – apps, websites, devices – that cannot do my job without. If you have any tech you can’t live without please let us know in the comments below.
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